Study: Vermont forests shrinking 1,500 acres a year

Vermont is losing 1,500 acres of forest a year and New England as a whole is losing nearly 24,000, according to a report released Tuesday by forestry researchers at Harvard University and the University of Vermont.
“Over the last decade,” UVM forestry professor and report co-author Bill Keeton said, “Vermont lost about 1 percent of its forest cover due mostly to suburban and rural residential sprawl, reversing a 150-year trend of forest recovery and expansion.”
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